| 1823 - Počet stránok 1126
...(published quarterly, each Number containing upwards of 220 pages), taken from the Edinburgh Review: — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...looks at an American picture or statue? What does the-world yet owe to American Physicians and Surgeons ?" If Dr. Chapman wishes to demonstrate the injustice... | |
| 1847 - Počet stránok 662
...names of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, and Milton. Yes ; although Sidney Smith's taunting question, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" may now be more satisfactorily answered than when it was first propounded ; although we can produce... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1844 - Počet stránok 348
...throw into the hands of government, will invest it with so vast an miïuence, and hold out such means the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world and temptations to corruption, as all the virtue and yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ! What... | |
| Obadiah Rich - 1846 - Počet stránok 530
...is in a review of this work in the Edinburgh Review (xzxiii. p. 79), that the question is asked, " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book?" &c. 36' A FULL AND CORRECT AccoUNTof the Military Occurrences of the late War between Great Britain... | |
| American Institute of the City of New York - 1850 - Počet stránok 572
...overthrow of our manufactures. After which we find the Edinburgh Review thus discoursing about us : — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play 1 or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet... | |
| 1857 - Počet stránok 992
...the arts, for literatore, or even for the statesmen-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says : " There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1856 - Počet stránok 784
...the arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says: "There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1857 - Počet stránok 866
...Crubbes — their Siddonses, Kemballs, Keans, or O'Neils — their Wilkiea, Lawrences, or Chantreys? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play J or looks at an American statue or picture 1 What does the world yet... | |
| 1863 - Počet stránok 922
...years ago, a series of articles designed to answer, in the most practical manner, Sydney Smith's taunt, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" It was understood it the time that the writer had access to the most reliable sources for the figures... | |
| 1865 - Počet stránok 940
...Sydney Smith, as late as January, 1820, asked, in the " Edinburgh," that'wellknown and stingmg question, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " Even at -home, " Hesper " and " The Mount of Vision " soon faded out of sight. At that time, 1808... | |
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